British literature
British literature is literature written in the English language by authors in England, Scotland, or Wales. This includes the study of language and literature, prose, poetry, and drama.
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Early English Books Online from Chadwyck-Healey
Early English Books Online from Chadwick
Early English Books Online contains scanned page images (GIF and TIFF) of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700. Coverages includes all subject areas with strong coverage in the humanities, performing arts, and education. Each is full-text searchable. Limited to simultaneous users.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online - ECCO from Gale
Eighteenth Century Collections Online - ECCO from Gale
ECCO provides full-text books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides, directories, Bibles, sheet music, sermons and advertisements in HTML and PDF. It delivers every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in Great Britain during the eighteenth century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.
British Periodicals - Collections I and II from ProQuest
British Periodicals Collections I and II from ProQuest
British Periodicals is a collection of digitized periodicals covering the humanities, performing arts, history, science, architecture, and especially literature. Documents are available as high-resolution images and downloadable PDFs. Browse individual journals or search across the collection. All content is indexed, including advertising. Searches can be limited to multimedia types, including maps, illustrations, comics, photos, and music scores. 1681-1939.
Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900 (C19) from Chadwyck-Healey
Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900 (C19) from Chadwyck-Healey
The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals indexes citations of periodical articles, including the authorship of articles and a bibliography of articles written by each contributor, and using each pseudonym. Citations of evidence are provided to support attributions of authorship, along with brief biographical and vocational details. Each indexed publication is thoroughly described. Some citations link to full text from other C19 databases.
Modern English Collection from the Electronic Text Center at UVA
Modern English Collection from the Electronic Text Center at UVA
This heterogeneous collection contains fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, letters, newspapers, manuscripts and illustrations, arranged for browsing by author's last name or by category of interest. Each text is encoded in either SGML or XML and includes a bibliographic header with details about the creation of the electronic text and its print source. 1500s-present.
English Poetry Database from the Electronic Text Center at UVA
English Poetry Database from the Electronic Text Center at UVA
Full texts of English poetry, A.D. 600-1900. In English (including Early and Middle), Greek, Latin, and other languages.
Spenser and the Tradition: English Poetry 1579-1830
Spenser and the Tradition: English Poetry 1579-1830
English Poetry 1579-1830 indexes full-text poems, commentary, and biographical entries on writers from the English-speaking world. Full text in HTML.
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